This tag is specifically for the R2 version of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008.
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Is there a way to decrypt TDE transaction log files on disk for use with 3rd party software?
Is there a way to decrypt TDE log files on disk for use with 3rd party software? I have the original key and certificates. I am trying to use the transaction files with a 3rd party tool in order to ...
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View column has an 8000 character limit?
In SQL Server 2008 R2 we are using an updateable view to update a varchar(max) column. When we update the column with text and then check the number of characters, it is showing a length of 8000 ...
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Update my local db based on scripts executed in my server database
I need to create an solution that update my local db version based on changes that was made on my server database.
First, I need to check the differences that has exists between these databases and ...
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2answers
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Restore database created in SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2
I have a .bak file created by some other user in (I think) SQL Server 2008 R2 (10.50) and I need to restore it in SQL Server R2 SP2 (10.52). I used a hex viewer to look into the .bak file and found ...
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1answer
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Is this a good strategy for importing a large amount of data and decomposing as an ETL?
I have a set of five tables (a highly decomposed schema for an ETL if I understand the nomenclature) that I'm going to load via bulk import, then run some inserts from those five tables into a SLEW of ...
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Is it “legal” TSQL to CREATE TABLE #SomeTable and then DROP TABLE #SomeTable repeatedly in a script?
Is it "legal" TSQL to CREATE TABLE #SomeTable and then DROP TABLE #SomeTable repeatedly in a script?
I've got my code sort of segregated as "coherent blocks" that I can insert into a longer ...
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Backup very large table
I have to update certain values of a large table (for the sake of a presumed example, it is called 'Resource' and it is over 5M rows) and thus I have to make a backup before performing the changes. We ...
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VarChar to NVarChar causing truncate error
I am importing some data from a temporary table which has a column defined as VARCHAR(150). The destination tables column is defined as NVARCHAR(200). I'm using an INSERT INTO statement, but when I ...
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Attaching a database in SSMS gives error
I am accessing SQL Server using SSMS, and a user with adequate permissions.
When this user tries to attach a database by using SSMS (by right clicking on database node and then clicking on attach), ...
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1answer
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Database size not reduced after compressing tables
Using Data Compression, my table size was reduced from 1770 MB to 250 MB, but the database size was not reduced. Why?
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Constraints based on other columns
Is it possible to limit what values are allowed in a coulumn based off of other values in the row?
For example, my table:
ID Test_mode Active
-- --------- ------
1 1 Null
2 0 ...
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Copy tables from a stand-by database
I want to explain the following. I have a database that is a recovery db from our main environment. This database is kept up-to-date through log shipping. However, I want to copy all tables from this ...
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How to reduce network latency during mirroring?
We are using SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard edition for mirroring.
But we found out that network latency is too high. It takes nearly four times time to complete a transaction while mirroring is active. ...
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1answer
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Audit full text activity
I need to find when and which user created full text catalog, and who added/modified/deleted the columns (that were full text indexed) in that full text catalog.
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SA permissions issues with many nested objects
I have a broker application that's relatively complicated.
Today, after I made some changes, I started getting the error:
The server principal 'sa' is not able to access the database 'XYZ' under ...
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How to restore SQL Server 2008 R2 backup to SQL Server 2008 [duplicate]
I am unable to restore a backup from a 64-bit instance onto a 32-bit instance.
Source Server:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP1) - 10.50.2500.0 (X64)
Destination server:
Microsoft SQL Server ...
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The Login is from an untrusted domain - domain setup with computer level login
I have a Sql Server 2008 R2 database I'm attempting to connect to using ADO.NET using integrated security in the connection string.
The database resides on a 64 bit Windows Server 2003 machine. The ...
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Can I use the database and query it while full-text indexing?
I need to index my database, but I need to query it while it is indexing, it may take a long time, can I do that?
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Recommendations on how to organize Queues in Service Broker
I have a service broker application that currently has 5 or 6 queues on two servers.
The general workflow is:
Server A
User populates some tables
User fires stored proc which puts a message into ...
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3answers
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Auditing specific database events
For auditing purposes, we have a requirement in which we have to enable Auditing for theses events:
DBA Logins
Changes made by DBAs LIKE INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, ALTER (etc.)
Changes made by our ...
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Directory lookup failed during log shipping
I have configured log shipping for all our SharePoint 2010 databases. All worked well since Friday and today Monday I ran this query:
SELECT *
FROM [msdb].[dbo].[sysjobhistory]
WHERE [message] like ...
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When SQL Server uses Multi Page Allocation
In SQL Server 2008 R2
I always wonder what can be consumer of MPA (multi page allocation) in SQL Server? I know data page is always 8K so is there a situation where data/index page make use of MPA? ...
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distribution.dbo.MSdistribution_history comments explanation
The comment column of distributor.dbo.MSdistribution_history contains comments such as
<stats state="2" fetch="11554" wait="214007" cmds="17898546" callstogetreplcmds="106880">
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Document database structure for auditors
I am DBA for a Microsoft SQL Server 2008r2.
Due to an audition, I need to provide data structure of my database, to people without an explicit IT background.
I guess they would like the traditional ...
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BM25 (full-text search) implementation in SQL Server
I've hit a stump, while trying to implement the BM25 algorithm in SQL Server 2008 R2. I know that SQL Server includes the Full-Text Search option, which already implements a variant of BM25, but I ...
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Use a condition to limit the databases a policy checks
I'd like to create a Policy that checks, on demand, one database in an instance for tables that have no index. I can see how to create a Condition, linked to the 'Database' Facet and checks for my ...
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Hierarchical data best practices
I'm looking for a best practicies\databases to solve our problem:
Currently we are using SQL Server 2008 R2 with HierarchyId. It works ok, but we have a lot of performance penalties due to this ...
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mdw_purge_data_ long runtime
I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 that is running several databases and has also been configured as our central MDW.
When the management data warehouse is created it creates a number of agent jobs one of ...
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Retrieve 5th highest salary in table [closed]
How to get the 5th highest salary from the table. Suppose, I have 100 rows and I want to display details of 5th highest salary of the individual then how to write that query in T-SQL using SQL Server ...
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1answer
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When performing a cross-database transaction, in which transaction log(s) is the information stored?
Given the following snippet:
-- error checking omitted for brevity
begin tran
exec database1..my_stored_procedure
exec database2..my_other_stored_procedure
if (@@error <> 0)
rollback
...
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2answers
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Can I recover CDC tables from transaction logs?
Is there anyway to restore CDC tables from transaction logs? My basic understanding is that CDC reads these logs, and entries that are specially marked, are grabbed by CDC. Once this has happened ...
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1answer
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Total Memory used by SQL Server (64 bit)
My knowledge on the subject suggests that perf counter SQL Server:Memory Manager: Total Server Memory only gives you buffer pool memory. There is a column called physical_memory_in_use in a DMV named ...
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Maximum memory setting in SQL Server
I'm running SQL Server 2008 and a web based application, on a single dedicated server, with only 2Gb of memory available.
As is noted elsewhere, SQL Server regularly takes up to 98% of physical ...
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Working Linked Server Query fails in sp_send_dbmail
Take the following example:
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients = 'me@whatever.co.uk' ,
@query = 'SELECT TOP 10 * FROM LINKEDSERVERA.DATABASE.dbo.TABLE' ,
@attach_query_result_as_file = N'True' ...
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1answer
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Real-time merge of two databases on different servers
One of the requirements our customer has given is to merge two databases running on two different machines in real time. This means that we have to build some sync policy (or use SQL Server tools to ...
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Trying to write a function that doesn't require dbo. prefix
I am trying to write a simple system function so that the dbo. prefix is NOT required to access the function. I have found an example of this for SQL Server 2000 but when I run
EXEC SP_CONFIGURE ...
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Force sql server to run query conditions as written?
Im using Sql server 2008 R2 And I have this pseudo query (SP) :
select ...
from ...
WHERE @LinkMode IS NULL
AND (myColumn IN (...very long time exeted query...))
...
...
The ...
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1answer
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Disabled trigger still fired
I've just run the following t-sql to disable a trigger (with a deploy script wrapper around osql):
disable trigger dbo.trExampleTableInsert ON dbo.ExampleTable
In SSMS I could see the trigger was ...
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Deleted a file accidentally, I need to remove it's entry, I don't need it's data because it contains only indexes [duplicate]
I have a C# program to deal with a big database, I need the databas not to be the buttle-nick of my program, in the database, to increase performance, I have created a filegroup with a single data ...
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Is there a behavior change between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2008 R2 OPTION (FAST 1)?
This is question 2 of 2 related to the FAST query hint. Background Information (as an aside, I'm not trying to garner more rep, I'm trying to be true to only asking one question per question).
Our ...
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1answer
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How does OPTION (FAST 1) actually interact with a client?
This is question 1 of 2 related to OPTION (FAST 1);
We've just upgraded our ERP database from SQL 2000 EE to 2008 R2 EE and we've been noticing increased blocking in the database. I've narrowed it ...
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1answer
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Publishing stored proc execution in transactional replication
In SQL 2008 R2, I am going to update a table which will affect 25 million rows, table is currently replicated (transactional replication). To minimize the impact on replication can I create a stored ...
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Indexes file damaged, was on ramdisk
I have put some of my indexes into a filegroup that contains one file, that file is on the ramdisk, the performance is great, but the problem is that the file was deleted incorrectly (the file ...
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1answer
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How to find which tables and views a user has access to?
We have a SQL Server 2008 database and have restricted all tables and views away from a specific user ID. Over the years we have granted back tables and views one at a time based on user need.
We ...
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1answer
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Upgrade SQL Server 2005 Enterprise to SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard
I understand that this is not a supported path, but does anyone have any insight about how to accomplish this? I can't seem to find any documents on the subject. I need my QA (2005) to match my ...
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Transactional replication creating a fixup index that's sleeping, but blocking other processes
I've just migrated my ERP database server from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2 (both Enterprise Edition) and that migration went fairly smoothly.
However, now that I'm trying to recreate ...
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Unable to connect to SQL server 2008 R2 via Instance name?
I don't understand :
I've installed sql server 2008 R2. the installation process asked me for the desired instance name , so I wrote: MSSQLSERVER.
after the installation , running Setup Discovery ...
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Speed up large clustered index creation?
I have a large table, the row count of the table is more than 3 billion, the data space for this table is about 120 GB.
And Intel Xeon CPU E5645 @2.4GHz(2 processors), 24 CPUs, 64G memory, 64bit ...
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Fulltext stoplist replication
In MS SQL Server 2008 R2 there is replication of table with fulltext index on it.
But stoplist that is associated with replicated fulltext index doesn't replicate.
Is there any possibility to ...
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Logging queries and other T-SQL
I would like to know if SQL Server 2008 R2 has a default logging scheme for SELECT statements (or any other T-SQL for that matter).
If yes, where can I see it? If not, how could I set it up?
